Source: Breitbart.com
The U.S. plans to test in your area soon.
The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said.
"I don't want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Tegnelia said the test was part of a US effort to develop weapons capable of destroying deeply buried bunkers housing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
"We have several very large penetrators we're developing," he told defense reporters.
"We also have -- are you ready for this - a 700-tonne explosively formed charge that we're going to be putting in a tunnel in Nevada," he said.
"And that represents to us the largest single explosive that we could imagine doing conventionally to solve that problem," he said.
The aim is to measure the effect of the blast on hard granite structures, he said.
Gee, Mr. Tegnelia...aren't we excited about nuclear testing in Nevada again?
Now, something similar to this happened in 24, but this time, it's real, and yeah, it's more "controlled," but with people in Vegas knowing ahead of time, won't there still be some sort of backlash against the military by the local citizens? Something tells me they won't be lining up with sunglasses to view the sight, if they can.
June won't be a good month to go gambling
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